{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-3B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-3B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3B",
  "heading": "Entitlement of a former joint-claim couple to a jobseeker’s allowance",
  "text": "(1) Where a joint-claim couple cease to be a joint-claim couple because they become, or are treated as, responsible for one or more children—\n(a) any claim made by both members of that couple for a jobseeker’s allowance may be treated as a claim for a jobseeker’s allowance made by either member of that couple;\n(b) any award of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance in respect of that couple may be terminated and may be replaced by a replacement award,\nwhere the conditions specified in paragraph (2) have been complied with.\n(2) The conditions specified in this paragraph are that a member of the couple—\n(a) provides such evidence as the Secretary of State may require confirming that the couple are responsible for one or more children; and\n(b) advises the Secretary of State as to which member of the couple is to be the claimant.\n(3) The claim by a member of the couple for a jobseeker’s allowance referred to in paragraph (1)(a) shall be treated as made on the date on which he and his partner were treated as having claimed a jobseeker’s allowance as a joint-claim couple as determined in accordance with regulation 6 of the Claims and Payments Regulations.\n(4) In this regulation, “replacement award” shall have the meaning ascribed to it by paragraph 9A of Schedule 1 to the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 1A inserted (19.3.2001) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1978), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/regulation/3B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:53:28.715055+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}